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Update: Mubarak interview story fabricated, NBC News reports

05/12/13 11:29 AMUpdated 09/13/13 08:47 AM

File photo: Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak sits inside a dock at the police academy on the outskirts of Cairo April 15, 2013.

: Reuters

Correction May 13: NBC News reports that al-Watan’s interview with Hosni Mubarak is a fabrication. Mubarak’s lawyer said that he confirmed with the former Egyptian leader that he did not speak to the reporter.

Former Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak said that history would judge his 30-year rule fairly in his first interview after losing power during the Arab Spring in 2011.

“History will witness and judge,” Mubarak, who is undergoing a second trial for allegedly conspiring in the deaths of protesters, said to al-Watan newspaper in Arabic Saturday.

“I am insistent that the upcoming generations be fair to me,” he said.

The 85-year-old also expressed sympathy for Mohamed Morsi, who succeeded him as president, saying that he couldn’t judge Morsi yet because he “is a new president with weighty duties for the first time.”

Mubarak added that he was “very sad” for Egypt’s economy and the country’s tenuous security.